With the Indians in the Rockies

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Thomas and his friend Pitamakan, a Blackfoot boy, live at Fort Benton on the western frontier.

The boys become stranded in the mountains without horses, with no food or weapons, without shelter or any means of building a fire. This classic survival story rings true, as it was published in 1908 by a man who lived the story. This is the real deal even while classified as fiction.

  • ISBN: 9781895618648
  • Author: James Willard Schultz
  • 136 pages
  • Ages: 8-12
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Thomas and his friend Pitamakan, a Blackfoot boy, live at Fort Benton on the western frontier. One day, having ventured into the mountains to trap beaver, Tom and Pitamakan are attacked by a band of Kootenay hunters, who spare their lives, but make off with everything they have. The boys are stranded without horses, with no food or weapons, without shelter or any means of building a fire.

Tom is sure they’re going to die. But Pitamakan teaches him how to survive in the wilderness according to the old ways, and together the boys struggle to build shelter, fashion handmade weapons, and hunt for food and clothing. Still, months of harsh winter weather lie ahead and there is danger everywhere. Will the boys ever see their families again?

Born in New York in 1859, James Willard Schultz went west in 1877 to hunt buffalo. He fell in love with the open plains and mountains of the west, and with a woman from the Pikuni tribe of the Blackfoot, whom he married in 1879. in 1883 he began living on a Blackfoot reserve. His son became a well-known artist. Schultz lived in the west until the death of his wife in 1903. He then began writing about his First Nations friends and adventures, eventually publishing more than 30 books.

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Weight 0.158 kg
Dimensions 19 × 12.8 × 1.1 cm
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